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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

Green Car Congress

Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. million for failing to conduct “timely or adequate background checks” on approximately 8,600, or 95%, of its non-registered associated persons. The post Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. California.

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Ford Walks Back DEI Work As Some On the Internet Complain

The Truth About Cars

The external and legal environment related to political and social issues continues to evolve.” Much of the noise surrounding DEI is coming from one person, former music-video producer Robby Starbuck.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

Cars That Think

Instead, they’re made up of public data that was created by all of us—anyone who’s ever written a blog post, posted a video, commented on a Reddit thread, or done basically anything else online. Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Longpre: Exactly.

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Elon Musk's Reported Drug Use Rattles Tesla Board

The Truth About Cars

Marijuana is legal in several states, and you can even order ketamine from a Facebook ad. Legally, drug use could cause problems for Musk and his companies, as the government isn’t too keen on contracting with a company led by someone perceived to be irresponsible.

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Musk: Tesla Roadster Will Use SpaceX Tech and Have Rocket Boosters

The Truth About Cars

Musk made the claims in an interview with former CNN personality Don Lemon, saying that a flying Roadster is “not out of the question.” So, a flying, rocket-powered EV that is somehow street-legal. Though the Cybertruck is having weird rust issues, Musk noted it as Tesla’s best vehicle but said the Roadster will outperform it.

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Dealer Groups are Up In Arms About Potential for Scout and Sony Afeela to Sell Cars Directly to Buyers

The Truth About Cars

They warned that federal and local laws could prohibit selling directly to consumers and said that the groups could pursue legal options if they attempted to do so. After two years of asking and getting nothing, frustration is very high,” one person told Automotive News. “If

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”

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